Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine is not only reshaping the security architecture of Europe, but is also influencing the EU’s position as a global actor. With rising tensions between the US and China, the EU will find itself in an increasingly bipolar world. The rules-based global order is challenged and strategic relations around the world are being redefined. Key states from the so-called ‘Global South’ are becoming more important for ‘the West’ in its move to isolate Russia and to address global challenges.

EPRS Policy podcast - Future shocks 2023: Forging new partnerships in a polarised world

The EU is an open economy, reliant on global supply chains to a higher extent than the US and China. At the same time, these complex chains are subject to increasing disruptions and uncertainties with many areas of fragility. De-risking Europe’s global critical supply chains (particularly in the context of relations with China), points towards a more nuanced way of ensuring Europe's ambitions for increased resilience and strategic autonomy. It can be achieved by increasing domestic production, greater autonomy in the critical raw materials, use of trade tools and cooperation on a global stage.

EPRS Policy podcast - Future shocks 2023: De-risking Europe's global critical supply chains

The European Parliament and its elected Members are the citizens’ voice in the European Union. That’s why we want to make Parliament accessible to everyone. News in Brief gives you a quick overview of the day’s main topics in all official Union languages. This broadcast is brought to you by the European Parliament. You can find more programmes here:

News in Brief – 17/10/2023 – English

News in Brief – 16/10/2023 – English

Diets tailored to our individual characteristics could bring about health benefits but require data on our most personal features, such as our DNA. The promises are many, but so are open questions about the interactions between genes, nutrients, environment and health, and the role of socioeconomic factors behind our food choices. Governance of precision nutrition advice, services and products will include various legislation and policies because of its position between lifestyle and health, or food and medicine.

EPRS Science and Technology Podcast Podcast - What if algorithms decided what we should eat by looking at our DNA?

Gender-balanced representation among the decision-makers of the European Union is an important step towards full realisation of the principle of equality between women and men enshrined in the EU Treaties. The Union has made steady and significant progress, starting from a very low presence of women among EU Commissioners and Members of the European Parliament at the time when those institutions were created. The European Parliament is today one of the world's most gender-balanced representative assemblies, but there are still significant divergences between EU countries.

EPRS Policy Podcast - Towards gender balance in the European elections: Electoral quotas

Air pollution is the single largest environmental health risk in the EU and causes significant damage to ecosystems. As part of the European Green Deal's zero pollution ambition, on 26 October 2022 the Commission tabled a proposal for a revision of the Ambient Air Quality Directives. The proposed directive would set air quality standards for 2030 that are more closely aligned with the Word Health Organization's recommendations, as updated in 2021. It would also include a mechanism for the standards' regular review based on the latest scientific information. To achieve them on time, the Member States would have to establish air quality plans ahead of 2030.

EPRS Policy Podcast - Revision of EU air quality legislation: Setting a zero pollution objective for air

Each Member State independently decides on its own energy mix and use of nuclear energy. However, there are common rules and standards on nuclear energy, the basis for which is the Treaty on the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom Treaty) signed in 1957. All current EU Member States are party to it and it has remained largely unchanged throughout the years.

EPRS policy podcast - Nuclear energy in the European Union

News in Brief – 13/10/2023 – English

Петте филма, които се състезават за наградата на публиката „ЛУКС“ за 2024 година, са: „20 000 вида пчели“, „Паднали листа“, „На борда на „Адамант“, „В димна сауна“ и „Учителската стая“. Наградата LUX – Европейска филмова награда на публиката е средство за привличане на вниманието и за размисъл върху филми на социални и политически теми. Тя се стреми да насърчава дебата и размишленията, като укрепва европейската идентичност с помощта на киното.

„ЛУКС“ – Европейска филмова награда на публиката за 2024 година

News in Brief – 12/10/2023 – English

News in Brief – 11/10/2023 – English

News in Brief – 10/10/2023 – English

News in Brief – 09/10/2023 – English

News in Brief – 06/10/2023 – English

News in Brief – 05/10/2023 – English

Trilogue on the Commission proposal for a Better Data Sharing Regulation

EP Plenary session - Russia’s disinformation and historical falsification to justify its war of aggression against Ukraine

Briefing Renew Europe by Róża THUN UND HOHENSTEIN and Stéphane SÉJOURNÉ, President

Briefing S&D by Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ, President

Briefing EPP by Manfred WEBER, President

Effectiveness of the EU sanctions on Russia (debate)

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (debate)

Resumption of the sitting

Formal sitting - Address by Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia

Statement by the President

Voting time

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - all sections (debate)

Schengen area: digitalisation of the visa procedure - Schengen area: amending the Visa Sticker Regulation (Joint debate – Schengen area)

Approval of the minutes of the previous sitting

Commission Work Programme 2024 (debate)

Question Time with Commissioners - European measures to prevent and to fight the rise of organised crime

Composition of the Advisory Committee on the Conduct of Members

Corrigenda (Rule 241)(action taken)

Water scarcity and structural investments in access to water in the EU (debate)

Urgent need for a coordinated European response and legislative framework on intrusive spyware, based on the PEGA inquiry committee recommendations (debate)

Situation of Ukrainian women refugees, including access to SRHR support (debate)

2022 Report on Montenegro (debate)

Explanations of vote

Report: Clara Aguilera (A9-0016/2021) - Fisheries control

Agenda of the next sitting

Approval of the minutes of the sitting

Closure of the sitting

Plenary session

IMCO - INTA

INTA

IMCO

Composition of Parliament

Composition of Parliament's political bodies

Composition of committees and delegations

Negotiations ahead of Parliament’s first reading (Rule 71)

Corrigenda (Rule 241)

Announcement by the President - Sakharov Prize

Signing of acts adopted in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure (Rule 79)

Order of business

Establishing the Ukraine Facility (debate)

Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) (debate)

Fisheries control (debate)

Implications of Chinese fishing operations for EU fisheries and the way forward (short presentation)

Report: Pierre Karleskind (A9-0282/2023) - Implications of Chinese fishing operations for EU fisheries and the way forward

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Last minute session briefing

Press statements by Isaac HERZOG, President of Israel, Ursula VON DER LEYEN, President of the European Commission and Roberta METSOLA, President of the European Parliament

Pre-session briefing

Committee on Budgetary Control

CONT

Delegation for relations with the Federative Republic of Brazil

Committee on Foreign Affairs

AFET

AFET - DEVE - DROI

DEVE

DROI

Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

ENVI

Committee on Regional Development

REGI

AGRI - IMCO - PETI

PETI

AGRI

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

ITRE

EP Plenary session - Need for an urgent Council Decision in favour of amending the protection status of wolves in the Bern Convention

EP Plenary session - Improving the Union’s protection against market manipulation on the wholesale energy market

EP Plenary session - Data collection and sharing relating to short-term accommodation rental services

EP Plenary session - Deepening EU integration in view of future enlargement

EP Plenary session - Preventing work-related deaths following the Florence tragedy

EP Plenary session - Voting session

EP Plenary session - Report on the Commission’s 2023 Rule of Law report

Press conference on corporate sustainability due diligence directive

EP Plenary session - Financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2023 - In the presence of Nadia Calviño, President of the European Investment Bank

Press conference on The Annual Report 2023 on Human Rights and Democracy

61st European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee

LEX signing ceremony in presence of Roberta METSOLA, EP President and Mathieu MICHEL, Belgian Secretary of State for digitisation

Press conference on The review of EU driving licence rules

EP Plenary session - Rule 162 - Regaining our competitive edge - a prosperous EU in a fragmented global economy

Memorandum of Understanding ahead of the European Elections: Signing ceremony in presence of Roberta METSOLA, EP President, Vasco ALVES CORDEIRO, President of the CoR and Nadia CALVIÑO, President of the EIB

Press conference on The Report on the Commission’s 2023 Rule of Law Report

Press conference on Geographical Indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products

EP Plenary session - Council and Commission statements - The murder of Alexei Navalny and the need for EU action in support of political prisoners and oppressed civil society in Russia

In the European Union, democracy may seem obvious to us today. But this has not always been the case. Not so long ago, millions of Europeans lived through times when they could not vote or even speak up freely. When their very lives could be in danger simply for being different, for holding different beliefs or for wanting a different life. Democracy is a precious gift passed on to us from previous generations. They aspired towards it and fought for it. Now it is up to us to maintain it, to make it stronger and pass it on to the generations to come. The most effective way to do so is by voting - because the more people vote, the stronger democracy becomes. On June 6-9 2024: Use your vote or others will decide for you.

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 6 Dubbed 1:1 - Galician

In the European Union, democracy may seem obvious to us today. But this has not always been the case. Not so long ago, millions of Europeans lived through times when they could not vote or even speak up freely. When their very lives could be in danger simply for being different, for holding different beliefs or for wanting a different life. Democracy is a precious gift passed on to us from previous generations. They aspired towards it and fought for it. Now it is up to us to maintain it, to make it stronger and pass it on to the generations to come. The most effective way to do so is by voting - because the more people vote, the stronger democracy becomes. On June 6-9 2024: Use your vote or others will decide for you.

© ANDCO A/S, 2024. All rights reserved. Licensed to the European Parliament under conditions. Use or reproduction is prohibited without prior explicit permission from the respective right holders.

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 5 Dubbed 9:16 - Basque

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 5 Dubbed 1:1 - Basque

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 6 OV 16:9 - Basque

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 6 OV 9:16 - Basque

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 7 Dubbed 16:9 - Catalan

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 7 Dubbed 16:9 - German (Austria)

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 7 Dubbed 16:9 - English (Ireland)

"In the European Union, democracy may seem obvious to us today. But this has not always been the case. Not so long ago, millions of Europeans lived through times when they could not vote or even speak up freely. When their very lives could be in danger simply for being different, for holding different beliefs or for wanting a different life. Democracy is a precious gift passed on to us from previous generations. They aspired towards it and fought for it. Now it is up to us to maintain it, to make it stronger and pass it on to the generations to come. The most effective way to do so is by voting - because the more people vote, the stronger democracy becomes. On June 6-9 2024: Use your vote or others will decide for you.

© ANDCO A/S, 2024. All rights reserved. Licensed to the European Parliament under conditions. Use or reproduction is prohibited without prior explicit permission from the respective right holders."

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 5 Dubbed 16:9 - Catalan

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 6 OV 1:1 - Basque

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 5 OV 9:16 - German (Austria)

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 5 Dubbed 9:16 - Catalan

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 7 Dubbed 16:9 - Galician

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 5 OV 1:1 - German (Austria)

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 6 Dubbed 16:9 - Basque

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 5 Dubbed 1:1 - Catalan

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 5 OV 9:16 - English (Ireland)

Use your vote – European elections 2024 video – Trailer 7 Dubbed 16:9 - Luxembourgish

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